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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Sixty-eight years ago, on January 25, sodium fluoride was
slowly poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan’s public water supply to prove that
fluoridation reduces children’s tooth decay. Five years into the experiment,
things weren’t going as expected. Cavities declined equally in the
non-fluoridated control city of Muskegon, too. So to blur the truth or prove
their expectation, Muskegon was fluoridated also.

So what’s happening today?

Grand Rapids children are showing high rates of tooth decay
and dental fluorosis. According to the Grand Rapids Press, one pediatric
dentist said in 2007 “…we see children under the age of 2 with active
decay…Rather than just a few cavities, we're seeing a lot of cavities. It's not
unusual to see a child with 8 to 10 cavities."

America’s children are fluoride-overdosed with almost half of all
adolescents afflicted with dental
fluorosis, white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth. Tooth decay has increased in toddlers, untreated
tooth decay is epidemic, more dental schools are opening and more dental professionals
have been created. Emergency rooms are
flooded with patients in dental pain because 80% of dentists refuse to treat
Medicaid patients and half of all Americans don’t have dental insurance. Those that have insurance can’t afford the
out-of-pocket expenses. And Americans
have died from the consequences of untreated tooth decay.

The US Department of Health and Human
Services and the Centers for
Disease Control and many other dental,
health and government agencies now recommend that infant formula NOT be
mixed with fluoridated water to avoid dental fluorosis. References:
http://www.FormulaFluoride.Webs.com.

The prestigious US National Research Council produced a fluoride
report which reveals that fluoride, even at the low doses added to water
supplies can be detrimental to the thyroid gland, kidney patients, people who
drink high volumes of water and babies. But it’s being ignored

. In 1990, the New York State
Department ofHealth (DoH) published a study, “Fluoride: Benefits and
Risks ofExposure,” alerting officials that fluoride can be
harmful to kidneypatients, diabetics and those with fluoride
hypersensitivity even at“optimal” levels. But the advice went unheeded,
research leftundone and today’s claims of safety ring hollow.

Kaminsky et. al report: "The available data
suggest that someindividuals may experience hypersensitivity to
fluoride-containingagents” and " …individuals with renal
insufficiency who consume largequantities of fluoridated water are at an
increased risk of developingskeletal fluorosis.” Research in these two
areas were advised butnever conducted.

Further, dental fluorosis was reported in
diabetics who consume largevolumes of water containing 0.5 to 1.0 mg
fluoride/liter, the latterequal to NYS’s fluoridated water supplies.

Malfunctioning kidneys may not adequately filter
fluoride from theblood allowing toxic fluoride levels to build up
in and damage bones.Symptoms of skeletal fluorosis include bone pain,
tenderness andfractures, according to the EPA.

The American Dental Association admits in its
Fluoridation Factsbooklet "decreased fluoride removal may occur
among persons withseverely impaired kidney function who may not be
on kidney dialysis."

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) withdrew its
fluoridationendorsement in 2007, with advice that “individuals
with CKD [ChronicKidney Disease] should be notified of the
potential risk of fluorideexposure.”

The landmark 2006 National Research Council
fluoride report stated,“Early water fluoridation studies did not
carefully assess changes inrenal [kidney] function...Several investigators
have shown thatpatients with impaired renal function, or on
hemodialysis, tend toaccumulate fluoride much more quickly than
normal."

Bone changes in advanced kidney patients are
similar to bone changesfound in individuals with skeletal fluorosis,
according to theFluoride Action Network. This raises the
possibility that someindividuals with kidney disease are suffering from
undiagnosedskeletal fluorosis.

Seven New York City Council Members are sponsoring
legislation to stopfluoridation in New York City NYC residents can
lighten theirtoxic fluoride exposure by contacting Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, SpeakerChristine Quinn and their own Council Member to
make sure they vote tostop the addition of fluoride chemicals into NYC’s
water supply

Many more citizens and legislators are not buying into the false fluoridation information and ending this outdated,ineffective, health-robbing, money-wasting concept. Many communities have stopped fluoridation and many more are considering despite the false information presented by the dental lobby.

We urge you to join them and demand that water fluoridation stop where you live. Educate your neighbors and then your legislators. Informed people do not want fluoride in their water.